Heathrow Airport rejects extra flights from India before country joins UK’s red list

  • Date: 22-Apr-2021
  • Source: The National
  • Sector:Economy
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Heathrow Airport rejects extra flights from India before country joins UK’s red list

Heathrow Airport has refused to allow additional flights from India before the country is added to the UK's travel red list.

Bosses at the airport turned down requests from four airlines due to concerns about queues at passport control.

Passengers at the west London hub have complained of lengthy immigration queues with waits of up to six hours.

India will be officially added to the red list at 4am on Friday morning following a surge in cases and the emergence of a new Covid-19 variant.



Britons returning after that point will be forced to quarantine in a hotel for 10 days.

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